LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

When we moved into this house a year ago, I was quite pleased about having a gas fireplace. (Actually, we have two! There’s one in the basement, too.) The only thing that bummed me out was that the built-in “media center” lacked a MANTLE. Where was I supposed to put my knick-knacks and framed pictures and whatnot?

As you can see in this picture from nearly exactly one year ago, there’s a little “bump” of a mantle barely big enough to set the remote on. (And as you can also see, it’s about time for me to vacuum the blinds again!)

No more, though. My handy enginerd husband built me a beautiful mantle! It’s made of pine, designed to match our rustico style coffee table. I LOVE it. This picture doesn’t do it justice at all – it is gorgeous in person!

I had no idea it’d be so easy for him to build, either, or I would have bitched about it a lot more right after we moved in. He built it in just a few hours, stained it that evening, polyurethaned it before bed, and hung it up the next day. And I threw all this Christmas shit up there within about five minutes of him placing the final screw.

Now, I’m dying to put all that Christmas shit AWAY so I can go shopping for new stuff to put on my mantle! Yay!

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Last week, I was having kind of a downer of a day, until I opened up a brand new jar of peanut butter and found this:

Well, I can’t argue with that. The universe obviously is giving me a sign that I need to buck up and be happy. Paul’s trying to convince me that it’s supposed to be that way, since it’s generic peanut butter from Walmart. Y’know, they have that whole smiley face logo and all. Naturally they’d put it in their peanut butter.

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